Sentences with phrase «strumming at»

I really had a good time strumming at PW's ranch.

The film steadily strums at your heartstrings, but it plays a gentle Nick Drake - like melody, always sweet but rarely melodramatic.

Not exact matches

It's sort of like a real - life version of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, except instead of slapping away at a series of buttons — an act that has just about zero relation to the real thing — you're strumming away on an actual guitar.

Will this latest storm of strum and drang about «corporate welfare» and tax reform, a standard sound bite of every new White Administration — or at least every new Democratic Party White House Administration — actually result in any meaningful changes to the tax codes.

Personally, I think that Cameron is at his strongest when he identifies quality of life as a major dirving force; the largest single component of this is freedom - the freedom to choose to work long hours in an investment bank or sit in a hippy commune strumming a guitar.

Thanks to GarageBand's built - in effects, you can trigger a virtual orchestra via an attached keyboard or transform your basement guitar strumming into a blaring Pearl Jam solo performed at Madison Square Garden.

Another way to tug (or strum) at someone's heartstrings is to learn to play an instrument.

At the center of things is 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a lifelong music lover whose family has forbidden him to strum a guitar and sing.

Miguel is not prepared for what happens at the moment he first strums de la Cruz's 6 - string; he's suddenly transformed into one of the spirits so populous during El Dia de los Muertos.

We mortals like to imagine that holding the fate of existence in your hands at all time is a burden, when the real world gods that strum the strings of the planet seem to be having a delightful time fiddling while Rome burns.

At a children's birthday party, the smiling, guitar - strumming entertainer sings an extremely graphic song about the moment of their conception.

Disney / Pixar's Best Animated Feature Oscar winner Coco has strummed up $ 800.5 M at the worldwide box office.

Having worshiped at the acting alter of Meryl Streep since 1977 (her brief appearance in Julia), this frequent movie - goer takes great delight in seeing her donning a leather jacket and bangles while strumming an electric guitar.

If you'd rather strum than let it gather dust on the wall next to your car, it's actually a very sharp - sounding piece, thanks to the craftsmen at Hoodoo's shop in Calgary, Canada.

Given the 1960s throwback styling VW would no doubt like to think you'll spend that 30 minutes tying your friends» hair in braids and strumming along on an acoustic guitar, but in reality it should allow the van to charge while you're grabbing an overpriced coffee and using the WC at a grubby service station.

And at last, to a great strumming and scraping of musical instruments, she flung a scarlet rope.

Given that we at least share a significant awe and admiration for the wilderness, it is natural that we also find ourselves enjoying other, tangentially related experiences: The mellow strumming of a guitar, the fresh taste of a good meal after our hard work, a riveting conversation, a cold beer, some good body surfing.

If they tire of cavorting in the pool, playing table tennis or PS3, strumming the guitar or watching movies, they can head for the beach and ride the waves at one of Bali's famed surf breaks, or enjoy the sporting facilities of the nearby Finns Recreation Club *.

Thanks to the ukulele strumming of indefatigable leader David Pon, the South Team had jumped to an early start, setting off at 8 am.

A glowing orb will float in the lane you originally fired the shot and you have to catch it and strum the bar on the guitar controller at the right moment.

Located at the top of the fret, the new control method is laid out in two rows of 3, whilst a strum paddle remains at the bottom alongside a whammy bar.

We totally adore the beardy weirdy guys over at Digital Eel - heck, their very own Rich Carlson is the only IGF winner I've ever spoken to at GDC while that person was strumming a tiny banjo - isn't that recommendation enough?

While Quindar's sound varies, moving from spaced - out synthy jams to acoustic strumming, futuristic house beats to humorous lilting tones, a constant is the feeling of what it might be like to gaze out the space station window looking down at the earth hundreds of miles below — though it's only during Quindar's live performances that this feeling can come to full fruition, when projections of archival video and images, created by Jeremy Roth, play on stage.

As part of this piece, ten musicians took up positions throughout the space for the duration of the exhibition, on chairs and a couch, with a cache of beer bottles at their feet — each guitarist singing and repetitively strumming a plangent composition by Kjartan Sveinsson, formerly of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós.

As it spins, it shoots off arrays of notes that are a touch discordant but still sensical, as if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machine.

The Guitar Lesson, a painting of a clothed woman with one breast exposed seeming to strum a splayed - legged naked young girl's exposed vulva was shown, covered, for 15 days in 1934 in Paris at Galerie Pierre.

If you'd rather be strumming away at your guitar or playing a tune on your piano than thinking about your insurance needs, you're not alone.

At the chorus, the dual mandolins are near magical in their precision — you can actually hear the room echo flutter between each click of the frenzied strumming.

The guitar strums sometimes sound brighter than they do on other pairs, and Callahan's vocals sometimes sound more crisp — this sound signature, even with the bass at low or medium levels, is a lows - and mids - forward affair, with a little less crispness and brightness in the higher frequencies.

Such high ISO allowed me the fast shutter speed to capture a guitar player at Panasonic's booth and nearly freeze the motion of is strumming fingers and bobbing head.

We have 4 + guitars at any given time & our little babes love to strum the strings.